thecrusherwi
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Post by thecrusherwi on Mar 18, 2022 12:17:40 GMT -5
Sgt. Slaughter went from defending his WWF Title against Hulk Hogan in the main event to being a member of an 8 Man Tag Team Match where I'm not sure he was legally tagged in for more than a minute. That tag match was a real shame. Neither team even got a theme music entrance on the PPV. Bossman and Duggan were over like crazy the last year or two and Nasty Boys were winning the tag belts the previous year. I do often wonder whose theme both teams came out to at the show. Yeah Bossman, Virgil, and the Nasty Boys all are candidates for this thread too. All collateral damage from the switch from four hours to three hours that year. |
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Mar 18, 2022 12:27:32 GMT -5
Hogan went from headlining Wrestlemania III to losing in a double DQ in his first match in a tournament the next year.
The Rock went from headlining Wrestlemania 17 to having to carry a returning 48-year-old.
You could really paint anyone who wasn't in the main event two consecutive years like this if you just go based off of looking at the card/results and not taking storylines into context.
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Post by wildojinx on Mar 18, 2022 13:02:36 GMT -5
Nikolai Volkoff went from winning the tag title to jobbing to Cpl. Kirchner in a incredibly short match.
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Post by DSR on Mar 18, 2022 15:47:02 GMT -5
Shawn Michaels when he ziplined from the top of the arena all the way to the floor at WrestleMania 12!
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Mar 18, 2022 17:37:03 GMT -5
Macho? Went from champ in main event to a mixed tag match, which was part comedy match? It was a prime match, being with Dusty and being King and a feature match being a first ever, but it’s still a big drop. Certainly not the biggest, but in the conversation somewhere. I’d argue it wasn’t that big a drop as the mixed tag was the second-biggest match on the card. With the exception of maybe Jake/DiBiase (and obviously Hogan/Warrior) it was the most hyped match of the night. The way Wrestlemanias were booked back then, the second biggest match on the card was in the slot just before the interval and the mixed tag was in that slot. This was also the case at WM6, 7, 8 and 9. My answer would be IRS. Went from being in one half of the double main event at WM9 to being part of a meaningless multi-man tag at WMX. And to top it all, the match got scrapped at the last minute and shunted to Raw the next night. |
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Post by johnnyk9 on Mar 18, 2022 18:19:15 GMT -5
The Barbarian WM 5 to 6 tag title match to forgettable throw away match
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Post by SirLucas on Mar 19, 2022 11:15:31 GMT -5
While not have an actual match, Papa Shango was involved in the finish of the main event at WM 8. For WM 9, Shango had a dark match with Tito Santana.
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Post by RI Richmark on Mar 19, 2022 12:36:43 GMT -5
Jack Swagger - He went from having a world title match with Del Rio at 29 to working a tag match on the kickoff at 30. To make matters worse, he didn't even make the battle royal on the main show. You can also bring up winning MITB at Wrestlemania 26 and winning the World Heavyweight Championship two nights later. A year later he's seconding Michael Cole in the worst Wrestlemania match ever. |
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Post by smokinvokoun86 on Mar 19, 2022 13:07:49 GMT -5
I argue a bigger plummet for Macho Man was winning the World title at Wrestlemania 8 to not even be on the card as a commentator for Wrestlemania 9.
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Post by moonpies88 on Mar 19, 2022 15:31:17 GMT -5
Demolition Wrestlemani 6 , winning titles for 3rd time, getting some of the loudest cheers, to Wrestlemania 7 where they got no reaction (different music) and jobbed out in 5 minutes to a non full time WWF team
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Mar 20, 2022 14:38:29 GMT -5
WrestleMania 25: WWE Title Match: Triple H (c) VS Randy Orton: BOTH guys plummeted and pretty hard. Triple H goes from defending the company's top title to fighting Sheamus in his first non-World Title match at WrestleMania since X-Seven. And, Orton goes from main eventing for the WWE Title to taking on his Legacy lackies.
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Post by Aceorton on Mar 20, 2022 17:04:56 GMT -5
If we're reading the question as "biggest loss of push/relevance with little hope of recovery," which appears to be the OP's intent, then Bundy (WM2 to WM3) and Demolition (WM6 to WM7) take this for me easily.
Honky Tonk Man from WM4 to WM5 is another candidate. He went from the IC champ no one could manage to dethrone to taking the pin in a filler match tagging with Valentine.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Mar 21, 2022 11:58:16 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar went from main eventing WrestleMania XIX as the future of the company to jobbing to Goldberg in one of the worst matches ever and then leaving.
I wonder what happened to that guy
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 21, 2022 15:16:36 GMT -5
Brock Lesnar went from main eventing WrestleMania XIX as the future of the company to jobbing to Goldberg in one of the worst matches ever and then leaving. I wonder what happened to that guy Currently is a dumbass farmer, I hear. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Mar 21, 2022 15:26:13 GMT -5
Macho? Went from champ in main event to a mixed tag match, which was part comedy match? It was a prime match, being with Dusty and being King and a feature match being a first ever, but it’s still a big drop. Certainly not the biggest, but in the conversation somewhere. Macho's drop from 8 to 9 was even more dramatic. From winning the world title at 8 to being a commentator and not even wrestling at 9. |
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Mar 21, 2022 15:34:37 GMT -5
WrestleMania 25: WWE Title Match: Triple H (c) VS Randy Orton: BOTH guys plummeted and pretty hard. Triple H goes from defending the company's top title to fighting Sheamus in his first non-World Title match at WrestleMania since X-Seven. And, Orton goes from main eventing for the WWE Title to taking on his Legacy lackies. With the reaction their WM 25 match got I would say the demotion was warranted for both of them. |
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Post by chrom on Mar 21, 2022 15:53:48 GMT -5
Demolition for three years straight was either competing or defending the tag titles, then in their last ever appearance they lose in three minutes to guys from a different promotion in a filler bout. Hard to fall harder than that
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Mar 21, 2022 16:05:33 GMT -5
Macho? Went from champ in main event to a mixed tag match, which was part comedy match? It was a prime match, being with Dusty and being King and a feature match being a first ever, but it’s still a big drop. Certainly not the biggest, but in the conversation somewhere. Macho's drop from 8 to 9 was even more dramatic. From winning the world title at 8 to being a commentator and not even wrestling at 9. I guess, but who from 8 was on 9? Hogan, HBK, Bret, Taker, Money Inc and Skinner if you count him as a Doink…a few more than I thought when I hit reply… I was gonna say at least he was on the show…but now I’m arguing Taker, from wrestling Jake to wrestling Giant Gonzales. |
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